…and we drop off in silence and alone with You all our programs and schemes and are told by Your Spirit these other names, the ones we were to be from birth, and we suddenly remember that You Yourself created us, so we must be wonderful, as David remembered in his son (psalm 139), and we are no longer these little jobs created by man, but we are these one of a kind, unique poems on earth to teach of You and Your resplendant diversity, and we no longer get caught in hating or mistrusting other, but we celebrate ourselves as we sing the song of others–both as meditations on who You are, and what You have left on earth to speak Your Names.
Looking for Lydia this year!
Finding the Lydias in your life this year… Recall that Lydia was the first woman in Europe to turn towards the message of St Paul.